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Puzzle Puppers cover art

Puzzle Puppers

Cardboard Keep · 2017-01-20

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 20, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 20, 2017 (Mac), Jan 20, 2017 (Linux), Jan 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Stretch out cute dogs to their food bowls! Easy to learn, difficult to master with deceptively simple puzzles and mechanics.

93%
positive of 112 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)
Puzzle Puppers is a puzzle game developed and published by Australian indie studio Cardboard Keep. Puzzle Puppers was released in January 2017 for mobile platforms and Microsoft Windows, and later released on the Nintendo Switch in February 2018. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who often appreciated the dog themes and core gameplay mechanics, but felt the game lacked in content and variety.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 18,060 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-08-09) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 11 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420172026Week of 2017-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.95$0.992017-01-212026-09-072017-01-21 — best price $3.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $4.992018-09-07 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $4.492018-12-21 — best price $1.992019-01-28 — best price $4.992019-03-22 — best price $4.492019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $4.992020-04-02 — best price $4.952020-05-11 — best price $4.992021-05-01 — best price $3.342021-08-16 — best price $4.992023-06-19 — best price $2.492023-07-03 — best price $2.492023-07-31 — best price $2.492023-09-13 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $2.492023-12-04 — best price $2.492023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-03-15 — best price $2.492024-04-15 — best price $2.492024-05-19 — best price $4.992024-08-19 — best price $2.492024-10-28 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $2.392024-12-20 — best price $2.392025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-11-24 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-05-08 — best price $2.992026-06-01 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $1.192026-09-07 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

602026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-27 — 0 pageviews2026-06-30 — 0 pageviews2026-07-03 — 4 pageviews2026-07-06 — 2 pageviews2026-07-09 — 0 pageviews2026-07-13 — 0 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 0 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 2 pageviews2026-08-23 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 0 pageviews2026-08-30 — 2 pageviews2026-09-02 — 0 pageviews2026-09-05 — 0 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 1 pageviews2026-09-14 — 2 pageviews2026-09-17 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 0 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
46.8%
earned "For A Relaxing Time, Make It Ham Time"
23.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian

Player tags

CuteFunnyIndieCasualPuzzleColorfulRelaxingStrategyStylizedIsometric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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